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AMERICAN 
ANTIQUARIAN 

SOCIETY 



HANDBOOK 

OF 

INFORMATION 



AMERICAN 

ANTIQUARIAN 

SOCIETY 



HANDBOOK 

OF 

INFORMATION 



COMPILED 

BY 

THE LIBRARIAN OF THE SOCIETY 



WORCESTER, MASS., U.S.A. 
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY 

1909 






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OCT i< 1911 



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The American Antiquarian Society, which in 191 2 will 
celebrate its one hundredth anniversary, exists to-day as one of the 
oldest national institutions in the country. In October, 181 2, 
Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Mass., with five associates, petitioned 
the Massachusetts legislature to establish a society whose chief 
object should be the collecting and preserving the materials for a 
study of American history and antiquities. It was the expressed 
intention of the founders to form a society which should be "truly 
beneficial, not only to the present, but particularly to future gen- 
erations — a society not confined to local purposes, not intended 
for the particular advantage of any one State or section of the Union, 
or for the benefit of a few individuals — one whose members may 
be found in every part of our western continent and its adjacent 
islands, and who are citizens of all parts of this quarter of the 
world." 

On October 24, 1812, the Society was incorporated. It was 
decided that beyond the reason of the residence of the founder, 
it was best to locate the building of the Society at an inland rather 
than a coast town. As Thomas says, "For the better preservation 
from the destruction so often experienced in large towns and cities 
by fire, as well as from the ravages of an enemy, ta which seaports 
in particular are so much exposed in time of war, it is universally 
agreed that for a place of deposit for articles intended to be pre- 
served for ages, and of which many, if destroyed or carried away, 
could never be replaced by others of the like kind, an inland situa- 
tion is to be preferred; this consideration alone was judged suflScient 
for placing the Library and Museum of this Society forty miles 
distant from the nearest branch of the sea, in the town of Worcester, 
Massachusetts. " 

The Society had exceptional opportunities to acquire material 

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at the outset through the munificence of its founder. Isaiah 
Thomas is justly entitled to rank with the most liberal-minded men 
of his period. His journalistic activity during his early manhood 
had placed his name high in the lists of Revolutionary patriots, 
his eminence as a printer had earned him the sobriquet of the 
"Baskerville of America," his two-volume "History of Printing 
in America" was a work of exceptional scholarship and impor- 
tance, and his learning, broad-mindedness, and philanthropy were 
constantly in evidence. Familiarity with the work of similar 
institutions in Europe had long made him desirous of establishing 
in this country a society which should have for its great aim the 
collecting and preserving of the materials of our national history. 
And when the time came for the fruition of his plans, he gave 
liberally both money and books that the Society might have a 
beginning worthy of its name. 

The first meeting of the Society was held at the Exchange Coffee 
House in Boston, November 19, 181 2, when organization was 
effected with Mr. Thomas as President. At the following meet- 
ing in February, other officers were chosen and the announcement 
was made of the gift of the President's own library, one of the 
largest private collections of Americana then existing in the country. 
Immediately a call was made for gifts. "Among the articles of 
deposit," reads the 1813 report, "books of every description, 
including pamphlets and magazines, especially those which were 
early printed either in South or in North America; files of News- 
papers of former times, or of the present day, are particularly 
desirable — as are specimens, with written accounts respecting 
them, of fossils, handicrafts of the Aborigines, etc.; manuscripts, 
ancient and modern, on interesting subjects, particularly those 
which give accounts of remarkable events, discoveries, or the de- 
scription of any part of the continent, or the islands in the Ameri- 
can seas; maps, charts, etc." 

The results of such an appeal were soon apparent. The Bent- 
ley collection, the library of the Mathers, and other gifts of im- 
portance so increased the Library that by 1820 it amounted to more 
than 5000 volumes. Up to this date it had been kept in the 
President's mansion. In the year 1820, through the generosity 
of Mr. Thomas, a building was erected, " highly ornamental as a 



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publick edifice, and well calculated to give respectability and 
permanency to the Institution." It is now standing, though in a 
dilapidated condition, on its original site on Summer Street. 

Isaiah Thomas died on April 4, 1831. To the time of his death 
he manifested a keen desire to work in behalf of the Society. By 
the terms of his will he gave it funds for various puri)oses amount- 
ing to twenty-four thousand dollars. His entire gifts, including 
books, land, building, and funds, amounted to about fifty thou- 
sand dollars. 

The most significant event in the history of the Society, following 
Mr. Thomas's death, was the appointment of Christopher Colum- 
bus Baldwin as permanent Librarian in 1832. To scarcely anyone 
aside from the founder does the Society owe so much in its early 
days. Possessing true antiquarian tastes, gifted with the ability 
to elicit the interest of others, and imbued with a zeal that was 
extraordinary, he gave three all too short years to the upbuilding 
of the Library. He wrote letters to authors prominent and obscure, 
and when that failed, made personal appeals. His Diary, a docu- 
ment of unusual interest throughout, shows in numerous entries 
his peculiar qualifications for his position. In 1834 Thomas 
Wallcut of Boston presented to the Society his collection of pam- 
phlets and newspapers. Its acquisition is graphically told by 
Baldwin. Under date of August 2, 1834, he says: "I called on 
Mr. Wallcut this morning, and he went with me to India Street, 
where the pamphlets, etc., of his uncle were deposited. They were 
in the fourth story of an oil store, where they had been placed about 
four months ago. They were put in ancient trunks, bureaus, and 
chests, baskets, tea chests and old drawers, and presented a very 
odd appearance. The extent of them was altogether beyond my 
expectations. I went immediately to work to putting them in 
order for transporting to Worcester. Every thing was covered 
with venerable dust, and as I was under a slated roof and the 
thermometer at ninety-three, I had a pretty hot time of it. Noth- 
ing but a love of such work could inspire any man to labor in such 
a place. The value of the rarities I found, however, soon made 
me forget the heat, and I have never seen such happy moments. 
Every thing I opened discovered to my eyes some unexpected treas- 
ure. Great numbers of the productions of our early authors were 



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turned up at every turn. I could hardly persuade myself that it 
was not all a dream, and I applied myself with all industry to 
packing, lest capricious fortune should snatch something from my 
hands." His inopportune death in August, 1835, at the very 
outset of a promising career, was a great blow to the Society whose 
afifairs he was administering with such signal ability. 

During Baldwin's incumbency the building of the Society had 
been enlarged. In 1832, two wings, each 25 by 20 feet, were 
erected, thus providing much needed room. The Council Report 
of 1833 speaks of the building as now "convenient for the purposes 
of appropriation, neat and elegant in appearance, alike useful for 
the Society and ornamental to the town. " 

• Scarcely twenty years passed before this building was outgrown. 
In 1838 Samuel Foster Haven was appointed Librarian of the 
Society, and during the incumbency of this careful administrator 
and distinguished scholar the collection experienced rapid growth. 
In 1853, a new building, 50 by 80 feet, of brick with freestone 
trimmings, designed by Thomas A. TeSt, was erected at a cost of 
$18,000. Enlarged in 1877 by an addition of 51 by 46 feet, at a 
cost of $12,700, it lasted half a century before it was outgrown. 

In 1854 Stephen Salisbury, whose interest in the Society had 
been previously evidenced by his gift of the land upon which the 
building stood, was chosen President of the Society. For thirty 
years he served in this ofl&ce, advancing the interests of the Society 
by the performance of many duties and by frequent gifts to its 
funds. A student as well as a man of affairs, he administered the 
concerns of the institution with wisdom and a thorough regard for 
the future. 

During the administration of Stephen Salisbury the Library 
had greatly increased. From a collection of 23,000 volumes in 
1854 it had become a library of 80,000 volumes in 1884. In com- 
mon with other New England institutions it had benefited largely 
by the dispersal of the Brinley and Cooke libraries. Special funds 
were established to enable it to add systematically to its various 
collections. Under these conditions of present and prospective 
prosperity, it was fortunate for the Society that it could enlist the 
services of so able a patron as Stephen Salisbury, Jr. In 1887, 
three years after his father's death, he was chosen President of the 



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Society, and remained in office until his deatli in 1905. Through- 
out these eighteen years he carried out the ideals set by his father, 
familiarizing himself with all the details of the work of the Society, 
and recording his faith in its future by the generous bequest of his 
private library, a portion of his real estate and the sum of $200,000. 
Next to its founder, the Society owes to no one so deep a debt of 
gratitude. 

The past three years have been eventful in the history of the 
Society. With increased funds the institution immediately en- 
tered upon an enlarged field of usefulness. Waldo Lincoln of 
Worcester, whose family and ancestral ties connected him in 
every way with the Society, was chosen President in 1907. En- 
dowed with liberal views and a broad mind, he has sought from the 
first to fulfill the thought expressed in one of the early Reports of 
the Society that "our Institution, in all its objects and concerns, 
is intended and considered as National. " In his desire to broaden 
the scope of the printed publications, to maintain a high standard 
of papers read before the Society, to demand increased care in the 
election of new members, to make known the valuable manuscript 
material in the Library, to specialize in the purchasing of books 
along those lines where the Library is strong, to provide that the 
new building to be erected shall be constructed with an eye far 
into the future — in all these things, he has laid the foundations 
of increased prosperity and growth. 

The Library. 

The library of the Antiquarian Society, according to a count 
made in 1908, possesses about 99,000 volumes. It is one of the 
great libraries of the country for students of American history and 
allied subjects, ranking in the field of American-printed books 
with the Lenox Library, the John Carter Brown Library, and the 
Library of Congress. 

It is in the productions of the early American press that the 
library is especially strong. The attempt is made to collect 
everything printed in America before 1820, this date having been 
chosen because it includes the establishment of printing-presses 
in most of the older towns, because it covers the interesting Jef- 



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fersonian period, the Wax of 1812 and the ensuing period of 
national reorganization, and partly because it is to be the final 
date of Evans's great "American Bibliography," already published 
through the year 1778. An estimate based on bibliographies and 
book-lists already issued, seems to show that the total output of 
the United States press to the year 1820 would number 75,000 
titles, with perhaps 40,000 titles published before 1800. The 
library probably has over one-third of these titles at the present 
time, and a systematic attempt to acquire some portion of what 
we lack would have decided results. The value of such a collection 
for the student of early American history, literature, law, medicine, 
theology, education, science, and all other subjects cannot be 
overestimated. 

Of the "incunabula" of American printing, the library has over 
200 examples. On the fly leaf of the desk copy of the 1837 Cata- 
logue appears this note in Dr. Haven's handwriting: "In looking 
over the Catalogue, Mr. Brinley found 186 works printed in this 
Country before 1700. He thinks there were not more than 300 
printed, and this library contains a far larger proportion than any 
other. Mr. Brinley has made this matter a subject of investiga- 
tion. " As our collection has since increased, so has the Brinley 
estimate. The list published by Dr. Haven, Jr., in 1874 numbers 
over 600 titles of the 17th century, and Evans in his Bibliography 
lists 967 imprints. Among the more interesting titles in our collec- 
tion are both editions of Eliot's "Indian Bible," several early 
Indian tracts, the "Bay Psalm Book" of 1640, the early editions of 
the Cambridge Platform, and Secretary Rawson's copy of the Massa- 
chusetts Laws of 1660. 

The foundation of this collection of early imprints was the library 
of the Mathers, obtained partly from Hannah Mather Crocker 
and partly from a purchase made by Isaiah Thomas. Under 
date of November 11, 1814, Thomas records in his diary: "Pur- 
chased the remains of the old library of the Mathers, which had 
belonged to Drs. Increase and Samuel Mather. This is unques- 
tionably the oldest in New England." The early New England 
publications of the Mather family number about 600 titles, and of 
this number the Society possesses approximately 400. This show- 
ing is approached only by the Lenox Library, the John Carter 



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Brown Library, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Two 
other early libraries which made notable additions to our collec- 
tions were those owned by Thomas Wallcut and by Rev. William 
Bentley. 

Other subjects in which the library is especially strong are 
early law including text-books, early American Bibles, hymn books 
and psalm books, Indian linguistics, and the early publications of 
the United States government. The collection of school books is 
probably the largest in. the country and has been the object of 
much study and research, American almanacs are very strongly 
represented, numbering perhaps 4000 issues before the year 1850, 
and showing a majority of those published in the 17th century. 

In common with other large libraries of Americana, the 
Society has a fair collection of genealogy — about 2000 family 
histories — and a very large collection of local history, in which, 
however, the West is inadequately represented. 

A recently established and rapidly growing department is that de- 
voted to Spanish-Americana. By means of a large fund established 
by Isaac and Edward L. Davis, and through the personal efforts 
of Stephen Salisbury, Jr., the works on Mexico, Central and South 
America are becoming an important feature of the library. At 
present the collection is strongest in antiquities of Central America, 
Mexican Indian dialects, early Mexican imprints, and bibliog- 
raphy. The Society would have the field of Americana well 
covered if it possessed funds which allowed it to improve its 
Canadiana and its works on Arctic discovery. 

There are few libraries in America so well provided with the 
ephemeral in literature. So far as concerns pamphlets, there has 
always been a general disposition to treat them in the same way as 
books, to bind each separately and place it in its appropriate classi- 
fication. This theory it has so far been impossible to carry out, 
but it is hoped that within a few years the library will be able to 
fulfill the idea well expressed by Justin Winsor in his Harvard 
Library Report for 1878: — "There are no considerations except 
economy for treating pamphlets other than books; and the users 
of a library are never thoroughly equipped for investigation so long 
as any distinction is made between them." 

The broadside collection is a large one. Among the items 



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worthy of especial mention are the 1690 Proclamation by the 
Governor and Council of Massachusetts regarding the first news- 
paper " Publick Occurrences, " a considerable number of Fast and 
Thanksgiving Proclamations, and three volumes of songs and 
ballads of the War of 1812. Maps, views, and portraits, especially 
the rare early specimens, are represented in large number, and 
there is an excellent collection of colonial and continental paper 
currency. These latter collections, however, need reclassifying and 
arranging to admit of easy examination. 

Newspapers. 

It is for its collection of newspapers that the library of the 
American Antiquarian Society is undoubtedly most frequently 
consulted. The first permanent newspaper published in this 
.country was the Boston News Letter, established in 1704. From 
this date up to 1800 the library possesses nearly 600 bound volumes 
of papers. As long ago as the year 1839 there were 1251 volumes 
of newspapers in the library, and to-day the number totals about 
7000. 

The founder of the Society, Isaiah Thomas, had exceptional 
opportunities to acquire colonial newspapers. As editor of the 
Massachusetts Spy, one of the important newspapers of the 
country, he exchanged with the publishers of other newspapers. 
In the preparation of his work on the History of Printing in 
America, published in 18 10, largely a history of the newspaper 
press, he took pains to obtain files or specimen issues of all the 
newspapers in the country. The collection made by him at that 
time and turned over to the library of the Society has not been 
since equaled. In western papers it is almost as well represented 
as in those of the East. Dr. Reuben G. Thwaites, in the bibliog- 
raphy of early western newspapers appended to his monograph 
on the " Ohio Valley Press before the War of 1812-15, " notes that 
of the early press of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and 
western Pennsylvania, the American Antiquarian Society is repre- 
sented by sixty different newspapers, while the Ebeling collection 
at Harvard University shows files of thirty-nine papers, the Library 
of Congress twenty-five, and the Wisconsin Historical Society 



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twelve. Newspapers, like broadsides, unless preserved by collect- 
ors at the time of issue, are exceedingly difficult to acquire. 

Among the longer of the early files arc those of the New Hamp- 
shire Gazette, the Boston News Letter, the Boston Gazette, the 
Massachusetts Spy, the Newport Mercury, the Providence Gazette, 
the Connecticut Courant, the New York Weekly Journal, the 
New Jersey Gazette, the American Weekly Mercury, the Pennsyl- 
vania Gazette, and the Maryland Journal. The period in which 
the collection is most weak is that of 1 830-1 850, and steps are now 
being taken to remedy that defect. 

The plan of collecting comprehends the acquiring of files of all 
American newspapers through the period of the Civil War. Since 
1870 only the papers of a few of the leading cities are preserved and 
bound. In this way about two dozen journals, representing 
various sections of the country, will be kept for the use of future 
students and to maintain the national character of this great 
collection. 

Manuscripts.* 

The manuscript department of a historical library is one of its 
most important divisions. Evidence is not lacking that Isaiah 
Thomas, the father of the American Antiquarian Society, prized 
highly the collection of manuscripts which he had gathered, and a 
like interest is shown by Librarian Baldwin in his stewardship and 
by all officials and well wishers of the Society to-day. The differ- 
ence in the size and character of the collection from that of a cen- 
tury ago is a welcome illustration of the Society's growth. From a 
few groups of manuscripts chiefly of a local or personal character 
there has succeeded a collection of over 35,000 pieces largely 
national in its scope. 

Among the manuscripts of the Society mention will be first made 
of the group centering about its founder, Isaiah Thomas. Here 
are interleaved almanacs from 1774 to 1828 containing the diary 
of Thomas from 1805 and a volume of some 200 letters to Thomas. 
Additional correspondence is scattered through other groups of 
manuscripts, and all these papers are exclusive of his official files 
of letters as first President of the Society. Thomas was a national 
* Prepared by Charles Henry Lincoln, in charge of manuscripts. 



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figure of his time. In the correspondence of few editors of to-day 
is there so large a proportion filled with notes regarding matters of 
national concern. 

The earliest period in the Society's archives is well represented 
by the diary of John Hull, Mint-master of Massachusetts in 1652, 
the notebook of Thomas Lechford of Boston, 1638-1641, and most 
important of all, the manuscripts of the Mather family. This 
voluminous collection comprises several hundred manuscripts and 
includes letters, diaries, sermons, and essays. For Richard Mather 
there are several important papers on church government from 
1635 to 1657 and a large number of manuscript sermons. For 
Increase Mather there are his diaries for 1659, 1664-1667, 1680- 
1684, 1688-1689, 1693-1699, 1702, 1704, 1705, 1717, and 1721, 
written closely in interleaved almanacs, his autobiography written 
for his children, and a few miscellaneous essays. Cotton Mather 
is represented by diaries for the years 1692, 1696, 1699, 1703, 1709, 
1711, 1713, and 1717, nearly three hundred letters, and many 
interesting treatises on religion, theology, medicine, and morals. 
Included also in the collection are a few manuscripts of less noted 
members of the Mather family. Within the following year it is 
probable that a large portion of the material that relates to Cotton 
and Increase Mather will be published. 

Of no less importance are the Curwen manuscripts. Aside from 
several volumes of notes and accounts this collection contains 
over 1 100 individual manuscripts grouped about the Corv^'in or 
Curwen family from 1640 to 1775. Among other than Curw^en 
autographs in this group are many of Samuel Sewall, Robert Hale, 
Sir William Pepperrell, Governor William Shirley, and other 
leaders in the French War. 

Closely allied to the latter portion of this collection are the 
several groups of manuscripts in the Society's archives dealing with 
the long struggle between England and France for the possession 
of the American continent. Prominent among these are numerous 
miscellaneous muster rolls and papers from 1726 to 1731, Robert 
Hale's journal of his voyage to Nova Scotia in the latter year, and, 
most important for the period of the minor wars, Sir William 
Pepperrell's Journal of his Expedition against Louisbourg in 1745. 
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colonial officers participated in the expedition. This 40-page 
journal from March to August gives interesting details of the 
most important campaign of King George's war, a campaign 
regarding which there is constant inquiry. 

For the closing years of the conflict with the French this library 
has abundant material for the investigator. The manusdripts of 
Sir William Johnson and of Col. John Bradstreet contain a store 
of information, and there are eleven orderly books or diaries for the 
same period. Most important among the latter are such volumes 
as the diary kept at Crown Point from May to November, 1759, 
and the orderly book of William Henshaw for the expedition against 
Fort Edward during the same year. Numerous miscellaneous man- 
uscripts supplement these three valuable groups of papers. Of 
especial importance among these are the list of officers killed, 
wounded, or injured at the time of Sir Edward Braddock's 
defeat at Fort Duquesne, and letters of Robert Orme and Admiral 
Augustus Keppel descriptive of the same engagement. 

The library's collection of Revolutionary War material is 
extensive. It includes a group of nearly 40 orderly books, letter 
books, and similar material, six volumes of miscellaneous manu- 
scripts, and many letters of noted civil and military leaders in that 
war. Chief among the orderly books are the Henshaw series 
covering the earlier campaigns about Boston and New York, the 
Saratoga series for the campaign of the northern army under 
Generals Schuyler and Gates, June-November, 1777, and the ser- 
ies extending over the occupancy of Newburgh by the main army, 
1 782-1 783. Among the miscellaneous manuscripts are numerous 
military papers of Brig. Gen. John Nixon and Maj. Gen. William 
Heath, the correspondence of Stephen Kemble, John Beatty, and 
Egbert Benson as to British and Loyalist prisoners, and various 
petitions from single regiments or groups of officers to their respec- 
tive states or to the Continental Congress. Perhaps as interesting 
a manuscript as any in the collection is the reply of the garrison 
at West Point to Washington's farewell address, Nov. 10, 1783. 
Important autographs of leaders in Congress or on the field give 
additional value to this group of papers. Of this character are 
letters of Adams, Hancock, Jefferson, and Sherman in Congress, 
Livingston, Rodney, and Trumbull at state capitols, and Washing- 



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ton, Greene, Schuyler, and Lord Stirling in the field. Gates, 
Conway, Charles Lee, and Arnold represent another class of mili- 
tary men, while various British orderly books, autographs of 
Burgoyne, Carleton, and others unfold the history of the English 
side of the war. The many manuscripts throwing light on the 
outbreak of the war are well illustrated by the Salem Non-impor- 
tation Agreement of 1768, containing 83 signatures, and numerous 
papers regarding the Society of the Cincinnati picture one conse- 
quence of the war considered at the time as the birth of an 
aristocracy. 

The manuscripts in the Society's library best illustrating the 
movement toward national unity date from 1783 to 1820. For 
this period its collections are especially strong. The suppression 
of internal dissent in New England is covered by the papers relat- 
ing to Shays' rebellion, and the growing life in that section is well 
shown in the Bentley manuscripts, 1 783-1819. This collection 
comprises 38 bound volumes of accounts and notebooks, includ- 
ing a 13-volume diary, and over 1500 miscellaneous letters. Among 
these manuscripts are numerous letters from the heads of important 
communities, societies, and institutions. Of these there may be 
cited manuscripts from heads of various departments of the national 
government, from leaders in cities and states of New England, 
and from educational institutions such as Harvard University, 
Notable autographs are those of Josiah Bartlett, Joseph Story, 
Josiah Quincy, Joseph Willard, James Winthrop, and Edward 
Everett. 

The growth of American independence upon the sea is hinted 
at in letters from William Bainbridge, various members of the 
Crowninshield family, and Robert Rantoul, found in the Bentley 
collection, but prominent for this phase of national growth are other 
manuscripts in the library. Here is a letter book of Isaac Hull 
touching his work for America in freeing her from the payment of 
tribute to the Barbary States, as well as a series of autograph 
copies of letters of Samuel Barron for the same period. Other 
noteworthy papers of the time are quarter books of the Constitution 
and Essex giving lists of the crews of those vessels with their sta- 
tions on board in case of action with the enemy. Numerous 



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manuscripts scattered through other groups of material aid in 
illustrating the growth of an American navy, that branch of 
military activity which best represents the ideal of a united 
nation. 

Turning from the east to the west the Society has its valuable 
collection of Craigie papers. In this six-volume collection are 
manuscripts descriptive of the settlement of the Ohio valley and 
the rise and fortunes of the Scioto Company organized for that 
purpose. Important manuscripts give Washington's ideas for a 
canal or road to the Ohio, news from settlements in Kentucky, 
and negotiations with Robert Morris for the acquisition of the 
Genesee lands in western New York. A large portion of these 
papers discuss the question of European immigration into the 
western territory, the best location for the settlement of the people 
received, and fhe necessity that they understand American ideas 
and so prove a source of strength and not of weakness to their new 
country. 

Another choice group of manuscripts in the archives of this 
Society is the Burr collection covering not only Burr's life but 
containing numerous additions made by Mrs. John Davis from 
whom this Society acquired these papers. Here are found letters 
of Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Sherman, and Morris of the 
earlier statesmen of the nation, and of Madison, Monroe, John 
Quincy Adams, Dallas, Cass, and Everett of a later time. Mention 
may here be made also of the biographical collection prepared by 
Samuel Jennison and consisting of short sketches of men prominent 
during this period of United States history. 

For the history of America from 1815 to 1850 the Society has 
the Lincoln, Merrick, and John Davis collections. The Lincoln 
papers are in two parts. In the first is the correspondence of the 
two Levi Lincolns, father and son, national and state officials, with 
four volumes of correspondence of Enoch Lincoln, Governor of 
Maine. In the second part are the manuscripts of William 
Lincoln, the historian, consisting of several thousand letters more 
local in character. The whole collection therefore touches local, 
state, and national affairs, showing the changes in all three fields. 

The Merrick manuscripts throw much light on the Anti-Masonic 
Movement of 1830, and closely following is the John Davis coUec- 



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tion. This consists of the correspondence of Davis, notes and 
plans of political campaigns, outlines of speeches, a few legal 
arguments and numerous letters paying tribute to the character 
of the man. Here are many autograph letters from the leaders 
of the Whigs — Choate, Clay, Everett, Seward, Winthrop, and 
Webster, relating mainly to national affairs, 1830-1852. Among 
the important single documents is a fifteen page discussion by 
Davis of the rise of the slavery problem and "the Influence of 
Slavery upon Free Labor. " 

Among the latest accessions is the Salisbury collection consisting 
in large part of the books and correspondence of the business 
house of Samuel and Stephen Salisbury of Boston and Worcester. 
These manuscripts are especially valuable because of the light 
thrown upon economic conditions and trade relations in New 
England during the i8th and 19th centuries. Numbering some 
10,000 letters and documents the collection is destined to prove of 
usefulness to those who are studying the social and business life of 
the New England of a century ago. 

Such are the collections of manuscripts in the American Anti- 
quarian Society. All have not been mentioned, but the leading 
characteristics of the whole have been summarized. It remains 
only to add that the Society recognizes its privilege of custody. 
Realizing that no library has any right to the possession of valuable 
manuscripts unless it shall make provision for the safeguarding as 
well as the use of these priceless records, the Society is preparing 
in its new home a department with an equipment second to none 
for the preservation of manuscripts intrusted to its care. 

During the past two and one half years it has made long strides 
toward the making of its collections available for the use of his- 
torical students. It has arranged its 35,000 manuscripts in 
groups centering about a person, a subject or a period of time. 
It has gone further. There is in progress a thorough card cata- 
logue or calendar of the individual manuscripts in its keeping. 
Toward the accomplishment of this purpose eleven groups of manu- 
scripts have been covered, over 4000 individual card entries have 
been made, and in the case of several groups whose respective 
manuscripts have been calendared the entire collection has been 
indexed and the completed work published. In addition to this, 



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some of the more noteworthy of the manuscripts in the Society's 
archives have been published in full. 

In these various ways the Antiquarian Society has opened its 
stores to the public. The results can but mark a distinct addition 
to the resources upon which historians are able to rely. Whether 
or not this Society shall have a larger field of usefulness rests with 
the owners of manuscripts too important to be kept under private 
stewardship. It is for the custodians of these records to recognize 
and make use of the facilities which the American Antiquarian 
Society has provided for the safeguarding and classification of 
material instrusted to its care. Well wishers of the Society can in 
addition provide it with means for carrying on the work of indexing 
and publishing its manuscript treasures, thus providing that mea- 
sure of use most helpful to the historians and biographers of the 
nation and reflecting most credit upon the custodians of the sources 
of American history. 

Museum. 

In the early days of the Society one of the prominent features 
of its work was the collecting of anthropological specimens, objects 
of aboriginal handiwork, and relics of colonial life. The result 
was a large collection of such objects, unarranged and worthless 
for comprehensive study. The establishing of the Smithsonian 
Institution, the Peabody Museum at Cambridge, and such insti- 
tutions rendered the work of this Society in those directions largely 
superfluous. In view of their thoroughly scientific and carefully 
arranged exhibits, the Society could only rejoice that that portion 
of its labors was being so well performed by bodies whose facilities 
for collecting were beyond all comparison superior. The founding 
of a local historical institution, too, made a much more suitable 
depository for local relics. Accordingly by vote of the Society 
a large number of our ethnological specimens were transferred to 
the Peabody Museum, while the local relics were turned over to The 
Worcester Society of Antiquity. A considerable number of early 
specimens, however, were retained because of their importance, 
and the most important of the historical relics committed to us 
in the past were saved out for exhibition purposes. Among the 
latter are the Isaiah Thomas printing-press, owned for many years 



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by the founder of the Society. An interesting relic is one of the 
leaden plates buried by De Celeron in. 1759 to assert the claims of 
French jurisdiction in the New World. This plate was unearthed 
at the Muskingum River in Ohio and was presented to the Society 
in 1827 by Gov. DeWitt Clinton. Other valued objects are Gov. 
John Winthrop's ''stone pott tipped and covered with a silver 
Lydd"; Fitz-John Winthrop's sword — a basket-hilted blade made 
by Andrea Ferrara; the Richard Mather chair; the "Alabama 
Stone," a presumed relic of De Soto's expedition of 1540, with the 
roughly chiseled words "Hispan et Ind. Rey"; and a box of the 
original tea picked up on Dorchester Neck by Rev. Thaddeus M. 
Harris the morning after the cargoes were destroyed and by him 
in later life presented to the Society. In the new building all 
these relics will be shown in exhibition cases in a room especially 
given to the purpose. 

There are a number of highly valuable pieces of furniture in the 
building preserved because of their historic associations and partly 
because of their usefulness. Among them should be mentioned 
the John Hancock clock — one of the tallest and finest specimens 
existing — also his double-chair and his business desk, the Gov. 
Leverett secretary, the Gov. Belcher secretary, and the Gov. Bow- 
doin secretary. These fine pieces of colonial furniture will serve 
in a highly appropriate manner to ornament the new building. 

Portraits 

The Society possesses several portraits which have been recently 
undergoing a thorough cleaning and repairing. Among them are 
the four Mathers — Richard, Increase, Cotton, and Samuel — 
Gov. John Endicott, Gov. John Winthrop, Gov. John Leverett, 
Rev. John Higginson, and Alexander Humboldt. Of the presidents 
of the Society there are portraits of Isaiah Thomas by Greenwood, 
Thomas L. Winthrop by Sully, John Davis by Billings, Stephen 
Salisbury, Sr., by Huntington, and Stephen Salisbury, Jr., by 
Vinton. The portraits lacking of past presidents are those of 
Edward Everett, George Frisbie Hoar, and Edward Everett Hale. 
There are two excellent portraits of former librarians of the Society 
— Christopher Columbus Baldwin by Harding, and Samuel Foster 
Haven by Custer. 



HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION 19 

Publications. 

The publications of the Society comprise two series — the 
Transactions and the Proceedings. 

The Transactions, more properly the Transactions and Collec- 
tions, were established in 1820. For many years they were occa- 
sionally known by the sub-title of " Archaeologia Americana," 
which misnomer, however, has recently been dropped. The first 
volume is chiefly given over to Caleb Atwater's "Description 
of the Antiquities of Ohio and other Western States," valuable 
to-day for the accuracy of its text and plans. The volume also 
includes a reprint of Hennepin's "Discovery of the Mississippi," 
Johnston's "Indian Tribes of Ohio," with vocabularies, Sheldon's 
"Account of the Caraibs of the Antilles," and other antiquarian 
papers. 

Volume 2 of the Transactions, 1836, contains Gallatin's "Indian 
Tribes of North America," a comprehensive work and especially 
useful for its vocabularies, and Daniel Gookin's "Historical 
Account of the Christian Indians of New England." It is the 
rarest volume of the series, since part of the edition was destroyed 
at the Stationers' Hall fire in Boston. 

Volume 3, published in 1857, prints the Records of the Company 
of Massachusetts Bay from 1628 to 1630, and the Diaries of John 
Hull, with their interesting portrayal of New England life from 
1658 to 1682. 

Volume 4, i860, contains "Original Documents illustrating the 
history of the Colony of Jamestown," and the "Narration of a 
Voyage to Spitzbergen in 1613," and reprints Wingfield's "Dis- 
course of Virginia," and Josselyn's "New England's Rarities 
Discovered," 

Volumes 5 and 6, published in 1874, form the second edition of 
Thomas's "History of Printing in America." This classic of 
American bibliography is here increased in value by the insertion 
of the author's posthumous "corrections and additions," by fre- 
quent notes and appendices, and by Haven's Catalogue of Ameri- 
can publications, 1639-1775. 

Volume 7, published in 1885, prints the Note-Book of Thomas 
Lechford, 1 638-1 641. Containing the daily entries made by a 



20 HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION 

professional lawyer who was brought into contact with people of 
all classes, it throws much light on the social customs and political 
life of early New England and forms one of the most valued sources 
for the history of the first generation in Massachusetts. 

Volume 8, issued in 1901, publishes the Diary of Christopher 
Columbus Baldwin, Librarian of the American Antiquarian 
Society, 1829-1835, recording, as says the prefatory note, ''a pic- 
ture of life in the cultivated society of a shire town in Massachu- 
setts three-quarters of a century ago, and the jottings of an earnest 
genealogist and antiquarian." 

Volumes 9 and 10, issued in 1909, publish the Diary of Isaiah 
Thomas, 1 805-1 828. The work forms a notable companion to 
the previous volume, and being the journal of a man of national 
reputation and diverse interests, it assumes more than local value. 

Volume II, published in 1909, is entitled "Manuscript Records 
of the French and Indian War," and contains a calendar of the Sir 
William Johnson manuscripts, 1755-1774, the text in full of certain 
Johnson letters of 1 766-1 769; a calendar of the Col. John Brad- 
street manuscripts, 1755-1773; a calendar of a series of miscel- 
laneous letters on the war, 1 754-1 767; and the Orderly Book and 
Journal of Lieut. William Henshaw, 1759. This volume gives 
some suggestion of the wealth of manuscripts in the possession of 
the Society. 

Volume 12, in press, will publish the Royal Proclamations con- 
cerning America, 1 606-1 783, printed from the originals in various 
archive repositories in England. 

The ProceedifTgs of the Society have been published regularly 
since October, 1849. Before that date there were eleven pam- 
phlets issued in the form of Presidential addresses. Reports on the 
Condition of the Society or By-Laws, and there were also the Pro- 
ceedings for May and October, 1839, and May and October, 
1843. Beginning with October, 1849, there has been an issue for 
each semi-annual meeting of the Society, including the business 
transactions and the papers read at the meetings. Beginning with 
October, 1880, a "new series" of Proceedings has been published 
in which the issues for three successive meetings — namely, a 
year and a half — make up a volume for binding. The issue for 
April, 1909, completes Volume XIX of this series. 



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In this long series of Proceedings are to be found many papers 
and monographs of much importance. A selection of a few titles 
will show the scope of the papers: 

Notes on the Laws of New Hampshire, by Albert H. Hoyt. 

Burgoyne's Surrender, by Chas. Deane. 

Bibliography of Indian dialects, by J. H. Trumbull, 

Many papers on Mexican dialects, antiquities, and archaeology. 

Bibliograohy of Yucatan and Central America, by A. F. 
Bandelier. 

The OflSce of Tithingman, by Herbert B. Adams. 

History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts, by George H. Moore. 

Archaeological research in Yucatan, by Edward H. Thompson. 

Voluntary System in the Maintenance of Ministers, by Samuel 
S. Gre^. 

Estimates of Population in the American Colonies, by Franklin 
B. Dexter. 

Illustrated Americana, 1493-1624, and of the Revolution, by 
James F. Hunnewell. 

The Navigation Laws, by Edward Channing. 

Literature of Witchcraft in New England, by Justin Winsor. 

Dr. Saugrain's Journal, Ohio River, 1788, by Eugene F. Bliss. 

Dress and Ornaments of American Indians, by Lucien Carr. 

Early American Broadsides, by Nathaniel Paine. 

Early New England Catechisms, by Wilberforce Fames. 

The Andros Records, prepared by Robert N. Toppan. 

The Roger Sherman Almanacs, by Victor H. Paltsits. 

The Ohio Valley Press before 181 2, by Reuben G. Thwaites. 

Early Spanish Cartography of the New World, by Edward L. 
Stevenson. 

In most cases, papers read before the Society have been reprinted 
in "separate" form. The number of copies in the edition has 
varied, but beginning with 1909 the number of reprints will be 
thirty for presentation to the author, and thirty for the use of the 
Society. 

There have been but few minor publications issued by the 
Society outside of the Proceedings proper. A complete bibliog- 
raphy may be found in A. P. C. Griffin's Bibliography of Ameri- 



22 HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION 

can Historical Societies, printed in the American Historical Asso- 
ciation Report for 1905, volume 2. A "Partial Index to the 
Proceedings, 1812-1880, " by Stephen Salisbury, was printed in 
1883, and a summary of the "Contents of the Proceedings 1880- 
1903," compiled by Nathaniel Paine, was printed in 1905. Men- 
tion should also be made of the printed "Catalogue of Books in 
the Library of the American Antiquarian Society," published 
in 1837. 

Price-List of Publications, 

Transactions, vol. i $ 2 , 50 

Transactions, vol. 2 (out of print) 12 .00 

Transactions, vol. 3 2 . 50 

Transactions, vol. 4 2 . 50 

Transactions, vol. 5 2 . 50 

Transactions, vol. 6 2 . 50 

Transactions, vol. 7 2 . 50 

Transactions, vol. 8 2 . 50 

Transactions, vol. 9 2 . 50 

Transactions, vol. 10 2 . 50 

Transactions, vol. 11 2 . 50 

Transactions, vol. 1 2 (in press) 2 . 50 

Note. With the intention of giving a larger circulation to its publica- 
tions, the Society has decided to 'place only a nominal price on its volumes 
and has accordingly issued the above revised price-list. A full set of the 
Transactions will be sold for $35.00, or, excluding volume 2, which will 
probably be reprinted, for $25.00. 

Proceedings, 1856-1880 (semi-annual) each $ .50 

Proceedings, n. s. 1880-1909 (semi-annual). . .each i.oo 

Note. The Proceedings of 1839, 1843, and 1849-1855 can be supplied 
only in part, since most of them are out of print. The new series of 
Proceedings, beginning with 1880, includes three issues in a volume. 
Vol. XIX of this series is completed by the issue for April, 1909. The 
price per volume (three numbers) is $2.50; in bound form, $3.00. 



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Miscellaneous Publications. 

Catalogue of the Library, 1837 $1 .00 

Address by Wm. Paine, 1815 .50 

Address by Wm. Bentley, 1816 .50 

Address by Isaac Goodwin, 1820 .50 

Report at annual meeting of 182 1 .50 

Separates, reprints from Proceedings 50 to i .00 

Note. Other miscellaneous publications, as listed in Griffin's Bibli- 
ography, can occasionally be supplied, although the above are the only 
items of which there is any quantity in stock. 

The Society also has for sale the following publications: 

Chandler Genealogy, by George Chandler, 1883. $10.00 
Tracts relating to the Currency of the Massachu- 
setts Bay, 1682-1720, ed. by Andrew McFar- 

land Davis, 1902, pp. 394 2.00 

The Confiscation of John Chandler's Estate, by 

Andrew McFarland Davis, 1903, pp. 296 1.50 

Membership. 

Membership in the American Antiquarian Society is purely 
elective. Limited to 140 members by the 183 1 by-laws, which 
number was increased to 175 in 1907, it has always been compelled 
to choose carefully in its elections. Nearly all of the long line of 
historical scholars who have told the story of America's past have 
been members of the Society and gleaned many of their facts from 
its archives. Bancroft, Story, Sparks, Parkman, Prescott, Win- 
sor — have been members and have taken prominent part in 
the meetings. Of the scientists can be named Humboldt, School- 
craft, Gallatin, Brinton. The membership is strictly national 
in its scope. Although Massachusetts is largely represented 
and the city of Worcester provides a disproportionate number of 
members in order to administer the Society's affairs, yet nearly 
one-third of the membership lies outside of New England. 

The dues for members were originally two dollars annually, 
but this was amended in 181 4 so as to apply only to members 



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living in the State and in 1819 was discarded entirely. In 1878 
Society voted to assess annual dues of five dollars on all New 
England members and to fix upon the sum of five dollars as an 
admission fee to be required from all new members. This is the 
provision in force according to the present by-laws. The payment 
of fifty dollars relieves a New England member of all annual dues. 

Meetings. 

The by-laws provide that the annual meeting of the Society 
shall be held in Worcester on the third Wednesday in October, 
and that the semi-annual meeting shall be held in Boston on the 
third Wednesday in April. 

The 1815 by-laws provided for two meetings of the Society — 
one in Boston on October 2^, " the day on which Columbus first 
discovered America," and the other in Worcester on the last 
Thursday in June. The 183 1 by-laws required that the annual 
meeting of October 23 should be held in Worcester and that the 
Boston meeting should be on the last Wednesday in May, which 
day had for many years previous to the revision of the Massa- 
chusetts constitution been appointed for the organization of the 
government of the Commonwealth, In 1850, however, the date 
of the meeting was changed to the last Wednesday in April. In 
1855 the day of the annual meeting in Worcester was changed 
from October 23 to October 21, which latter date it was decided 
more nearly approximated the anniversary of the discovery of 
America. In 1906 the present by-laws were adopted providing 
for the annual meeting in Worcester on the third Wednesday in 
October and for the semi-annual meeting in Boston on the third 
Wednesday in April. 

The Boston meetings of the Society were held at the Exchange 
Coffee House until 1835, at the Tremont House from 1836 to 1847, 
at the hall of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 
1848 to 1899, and at the building of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society from 1900 since. The Worcester meetings, except for 
the early meetings in the ''mansion house" of the founder, have 
always been held in the library building of the Society. 



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New Building. 

With the increase of its funds through the bequest from Stephen 
Salisbury, the Society was able in 1908 to take positive steps 
regarding the erection of a new building. Such a move had been 
long contemplated. The library had been steadily increasing 
until it was found necessary to rent quarters in a nearby building 
to accommodate the overflow. The county commissioners more- 
over, had stated that the site was absolutely necessary in the near 
future for the proposed extension to the court-house. Acting under 
the advice of a sub-committee, therefore, the Society purchased a 
large lot, formerly part of the Salisbury estate, bounded by Park 
avenue, Salisbury street and Regent street. With an area of sixty 
thousand square feet, bounded by streets on three sides and in the 
midst of an attractive residential neighborhood, the site has met 
with general approval. 

A building committee, consisting of the President of the Society, 
Dr. Edmund A. Engler and Dr. Samuel B. Woodward, was 
appointed and in 1908 secured as architects Messrs. Winslow, 
Bigelow and Wadsworth and R. Clipston Sturgis of Boston. The 
building planned is a two-story structure of brick, with marble 
trimmings and a marble dome. The portico, with its marble 
columns, is modelled after the entrance of the first structure of the 
Society built in 1820. The first floor includes a large reading 
and meeting-room, work-rooms and book alcoves. On the 
second floor are the exhibition rooms, manuscript-room, and map 
and print-room. In the rear is a five-tier stack with a capacity 
for 160,000 volumes of books and 15,000 volumes of newspapers. 
The building has a total capacity of about 250,000 volumes, and 
the lot is sufficiently large to allow the erection of additional book- 
stacks. 

The corner stone of the new library was laid on October 20, 1909, 
with an historical address by Charles Francis Adams and a descrip- 
tion of the building by President Lincoln. It will be ready for 
occupancy in October, 1910. 



26 HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION 

Funds. 

The funds of the Society in October, 1909, amounted to $451,000, 
of which the funds for books amounted to about $45,000, for 
publishing to $32,000 and for bookbinding to $7,500. Of the 
residue about $120,000, in addition to the amount to be derived 
from the sale of the present property to the county court com- 
missioners, must be set aside for the new building. The Society, 
therefore, although it has of late been provided with sufficient 
income, as soon as it has met the cost of what has been an impera- 
tive call for a larger and safer building, must look to the generosity 
of its members to enable it to continue the good record of the past 
two years. 

A fund is to be raised to replace the amount expended for the 
new building. The loss of $6,000 a year from our present income, 
caused by converting productive stocks into non-productive plant, 
would mean the abandonment of many of our intended plans. It 
would mean that our book purchases must be curtailed, that the 
admirable work now being done in cataloguing the manuscripts 
would be given up, and that we could not enter into competition 
with other large libraries in purchasing newspapers to complete 
our files. 

At the annual meeting in October 1909, the Society voted to 
appoint a committee to solicit a Centennial Fund of one hundred 
thousand dollars for the general purposes of the Society, and special 
funds, totalling an additional one hundred thousand dollars, 
for the collecting and preserving of newspapers, for the acquiring 
and cataloging of manuscripts, for the acquiring of local histories 
and genealogies, and for the issuing of publications. President 
Lincoln said in his annual address, "If such funds are raised the 
members will be astounded to find how soon we can make this 
the great historical library of the country for matters pertaining to 
the history of the Western Hemisphere. To-day, poor in money as 
we have been, our library is so rich in material that no historical 
writer can afi"ord to neglect it. All w6 wish is the means to complete 
what others have so well begun." 



OFFICERS 

OF THE 



Hmerican Hntiquarfan Society 

October 20, 1909. 



president, 

WALDO LINCOLN, A.B., of Worcester, Mass. 

Dlce*lPteslDents. 

SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN, LL.D., of Boston, Mass. 
ANDREW McFARLAND DAVIS, A.M., of Cambridge, Mass. 

Counclllora. 

NATHANIEL PAINE, A.M., of Worcester, Mass. 
SAMUEL SWETT GREEN, A.M., of Worcester, Mass. 
CHARLES AUGUSTUS CHASE, A.M., of Worcester, Mass. 
EDWARD LIVINGSTON DAVIS, A.M., of Worcester, Mass. 
GRANVILLE STANLEY HALL, LL.D., of Worcester, Mass. 
WILLIAM BABCOCK WEEDEN, A.M., of Providence, R.I. 
JAMES PHINNEY BAXTER, Litt.D., of Portland, Me. 
EDMUND ARTHUR ENGLER, LL.D., of Worcester, Mass. 
SAMUEL UTLEY, LL.B., of Worcester, Mass. 
ARTHUR PRENTICE RUGG, LL.D., of Worcester, Mass. 

Sectetaris for ^Foreign CocresponOence. 

FRANKLIN BOWDITCH DEXTER, Litt.D., of New Haven, Conn. 

Secretary tor Domestic CorresponDence, 

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, LL.D., of Lincoln, Mass. 

"IRecor&fng Secretary. 

GEORGE PARKER WINSHIP, A.M., of Providence, R.I. 

treasurer. 
AUGUSTUS GEORGE BULLOCK, A.M., of Worcester, Mass. 

Xibrarian. 
CLARENCE SAUNDERS BRIGHAM, A.M., of Worcester, Mass. 

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FOREIGN MEMBERS. 



Canada. 
name. residence. 

GoLDWiN Smith, D.C.L Toronto. 

Narcisse Eutrope Dionne, LL.D Quebec. 

Chili. 
Jose Toribio Medina Santiago de Chili. 

France. 

Henry Vignaud Paris. 

Pierre Emile Levasseur, Litt.D Paris. 

German Empire. 

Otto Keller, Ph.D Prague. 

Johannes Conrad, LL.D Halle. 

Great Britain. 

Jamb's Bryce, D.C.L London. 

John Beddoe, LL.D Bradford-on-Avon. 

Charles Harding Firth, LL.D Oxford. 

Lord Avebury, D.C.L London. 

-Hubert Hall, F.S.A London. 

Arthur Herbert Church, D.Sc Shelsley. 

Holland. 
Johann Christoph Vollgraff, L.H.D Utrecht. 

Mexico. 

Rodulfo Gregorio Canton Merida, Yucatan. 

Edward Herbert Thompson Merida, Yucatan. 

Nicolas Leon, Ph.D Mexico. 

David Casares, A.B Merida, Yucatan. 

Genaro Garcia Mexico. 

Norway. 
Capt. RoALD Amundsen Christiania. 

Portugal. 

Louis Henry Ayme Lisbon. 

Bernardino Machado Coimbra. 

Russia. 
Pavel Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff, D.C.L Moscow. 

Spain. 

Marco Ximenes De La Espada Madrid. 

Justo Zaragoza Madrid. 

Cristobal Colon, Duke of Veragua Madrid. 

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RESIDENT MEMBERS. 



NAME. RESIDENCE. 

fCHARLES Francis Adams, LL.D ."Lincoln, Mass. 

George Burton Adams, Litt.D New Haven, Conn. 

Henry Adams, LL.D Washington, D.C. 

Herman Vandenburg Ames, Ph.D Philadelphia, Pa. 

Rev. Joseph Anderson, D.D Woodmont, Conn. 

Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D Baltimore, Md. 

James Burrill Angell, LL.D Ann Arbor, Mich. 

Edward Everett Ayer Chicago, III. 

James Bourne Ayer, M.D Boston, Mass. 

fSiMEON Eben Baldwin, LL.D New Haven, Conn. 

Hubert Howe Bancroft, A.M San Francisco, Cal. 

Adolphe Francois Bandelier Highland, III. 

fEDMUND Mills Barton Worcester, Mass. 

James Phinney Baxter, Litt.D Portland, Me. 

William Beer New Orleans, La. 

Alexander Graham Bell, LL.D Washington, D.C. 

John Shaw Billings, D.C.L New York, N.Y. 

Hiram Bingham, Ph.D New Haven, Cona 

fWiLLiAM Keeney Bixby St. Louis, Mo. 

JFrancis Blake, A.M Weston, Mass. 

George Hubbard Blakeslee, Ph.D Worcester, Mass. 

Eugene Frederick Bliss, A.M Cincinnati, O. 

Franz Boas, Ph.D New York, N.Y. 

fCHARLES Pickering Bowditch, A.M Boston, Mass. 

fCLARENCE WiNTHROP BowEN, Ph.D New York, N.Y. 

Clarence Saunders Brigham, A.M Worcester, Mass. 

Robert Alonzo Brock Richmond, Va. 

James Willson Brooks, A.M Petersham, Mass. 

Augustus George Bullock, A.M Worcester, Mass. 

George Lincoln Burr, LL.D Ithaca, N.Y. 

Clarence Monroe Burton, B.S Detroit, Mich. 

LuciEN Carr, A.M Cambridge, Mass. 

Ralph Charles Henry Catterall, Ph.D Ithaca, N.Y. 

Alexander Francis Chamberlain, Ph.D Worcester, Mass. 

fEDWARD Channing, Ph.D Cambridge, Mass. 

fCHARLES Augustus Chase, A.M Worcester, Mass. 

Reuben Colton, A.B Worcester, Mass. 

Samuel Morris Conant Pawtucket, R.I. 

Deloraine Pendre Corey Maiden, Mass. 

Henry Winchester Cunningham Manchester, Mass. 

fANDREW McFarland Davis, A.M Cambridge, Mass. 

t Life members. 
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30 RESIDENT MEMBERS. 

NAME. RESIDENCE. 

fEDWARD Livingston Davis, A.M Worcester, Mass. 

Horace Davis, LL.D San Francisco, Cal. 

tPRANcis Henshaw Dewey, A.M Worcester, Mass. 

fFRANKLiN BowDiTCH Dexter, Litt.D New Haven, Conn. 

Roland Burrage Dixon, Ph.D Cambridge, Mass. 

Frank Farnham Dresser, A.M Worcester, Mass. 

Clyde Augustus Duniway, Ph.D Missoula, Mont. 

Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight Boston, Mass. 

WiLBEREORCE Eames, A.M New York, N.Y. 

fHENRY Herbert Edes, A.M Cambridge, Mass. 

Edmund Arthur Engler, LL.D Worcester, Mass. 

William Curtis Farabee, Ph.D Cambridge, Mass. 

Max Farrand, Ph.D New Haven, Conn. 

Rev. George Park Fisher, LL.D New Haven, Conn. 

William Trowbridge Forbes, B.A Worcester, Mass. 

WoRTHiNGTON Chauncey Ford, A.M Boston, Mass. 

Alcee Fortier, Litt.D New Orleans, La. 

fWiLLiAM Eaton Foster, Litt.D Providence, R.I. 

George Ebenezer Francis, M.D Worcester, Mass. 

George Pierce Garrison, Ph.D Austin, Texas. 

Rev. Austin Samuel Garver, A.M Worcester, Mass. 

fFREDERicK Lewis Gay, A.B Brookline, Mass. 

Edward Hooker Gilbert, A.B Ware, Mass. 

John Green, LL.D St. Louis, Mo. 

fSAMUEL Abbott Green, LL.D Boston, Mass. 

fSAMUEL SwETT Green, A.M Worcester, Mass. 

Charles Pelham Greenough, A.B Brookline, Mass. 

Edwin Augustus Grosvenor, LL.D Amherst, Mass. 

Lewis Winters Gunckel, Ph.B Dayton, O. 

Rev. Edward Henry Hall, D.D Cambridge, Mass. 

Granville Stanley Hall, LL.D Worcester, Mass. 

Peter Joseph Hamilton, A.M Mobile, Ala. 

William Harden. . . . : Savannah, Ga. 

Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D Cambridge, Mass. 

fGEORGE Henry Haynes, Ph.D Worcester, Mass. 

Henry Williamson Haynes, A.M Boston, Mass. 

Benjamin Thomas Hill, A.B Worcester, Mass. 

Don Gleason Hill, LL.B Dedham, Mass. 

Frederick Webb Hodge Washington, D.C. 

William Henry Holmes .Washington, D.C. 

Albert Harrison Hoyt, A.M Boston, Mass. 

Charles Henry Hull, Ph.D Ithaca, N.Y. 

James Frothingham Hunnewell, A.M Boston, Mass. 

John Franklin Jameson, LL.D Washington, D.C. 

Rev. Henry Fitch Jenks, A.M ; . . .Canton, Mass. 

Edward Francis Johnson, A.B Wobum, Mass. 

Henry Phelps Johnston, A.M New York, N.Y. 

t Life members. 



RESIDENT MEMBERS. 3 1 

NAME. RESIDENCE. 

William Vail Kellen, LL.D Boston, Mass. 

Frederick John Kingsbury, LL.D Waterbury, Conn. 

fLEONARD Parker Kinnicutt, S.D Worcester, Mass. 

fLiNCOLN Newton Kinnicutt Worcester, Mass. 

George Lyman Kittredge, LL.D Cambridge, Mass. 

Rev. Shepherd Knapp, A.B Worcester, Mass. 

Alfred L. Kroeber, Ph.D San Francisco, Cal. 

William Coolidge Lane, A.B Cambridge, Mass. 

fRt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.C.L Boston, Mass. 

Francis Henry Lee Salem, Mass. 

fWALDO Lincoln, A.B Worcester, Mass. 

Col. William Roscoe Livermore, U.S. A Boston, Mass. 

fHENRY Cabot Lodge, LL.D Nahant, Mass. 

Arthur Lord, A.B Plymouth, Mass. 

t Joseph Florimond Loubat, LL.D New York, N.Y. 

Rev. William DeLoss Love, PhD Hartford, Conn. 

tABBOTT Lawrence Lowell, LL.D Boston, Mass. 

fFRANCis Cabot Lowell, A.B Boston, Mass. 

William Denison Lyman, A.M Walla Walla, Wash. 

Samltel Walker McCall, LL.D Winchester, Mass. 

William MacDonald, LL.D Providence, R.I. 

Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, L.L.B Chicago, III. 

John Bach McMaster, LL.D Philadelphia, Pa! 

Francis Andrew March, D.C.L Easton, Pa. 

Henry Alexander Marsh Worcester, Mass. 

Albert Matthews, A.B Boston, Mass. 

Edwin Doak Mead Boston, Mass. 

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, LL.D Worcester, Mass. 

John McKinstry Merriam, A.B Framingham, Mass. 

fRev. Daniel Merriman, D.D Worcester, Mass. 

fRoGER BiGELOW Merriman, Ph.D Cambridge, Mass. 

Clarence Bloomfield Moore, Ph.D Philadelphia, Pa. 

Anson Daniel Morse, LL.D Amherst, Mass. 

Edward Sylvester Morse, Ph.D Salem, Mass. 

Wilfred Harold Munro, A.M Providence, R.I. 

William Nelson, A.M Paterson, N.J. 

t Charles Lemuel Nichols, M.D Worcester, Mass. 

Frederick Albion Ober Hackensack, N.J. 

Rev. John O'Dowd, A.B Portland, Me. 

Herbert Levi Osgood, Ph.D New York, N.Y. 

Thomas McAdory Owen, LL.D Montgomery, Ala. 

Nathaniel Paine, A.M Worcester, Mass. 

Victor Hugo Paltsits Albany, N.Y. 

Steph:en Dennison Peet, Ph.D Salem, Mass. 

Frederick Ward Putnam, S.D Cambridge, Mass. 

Herbert Putnam, LL.D Washington, D.C. 

t James Ford Rhodes, LL.D Boston, Mass. 

IFranklin Pierce Rice Worcester, Mass. 

t Life menibers. 



32 RESIDENT MEMBERS. 

NAME. . RESIDENCE. 

Abbott Lawrence Rotch, A.M Boston, Mass. 

t Arthur Prentice Rugg, LL.D Worcester, Mass. 

fELiAS Harlow Russell Worcester, Mass. 

Marshall Howard Saville New York, N.Y. 

James Schouler, LL.D Intervale, N.H. 

Albert Shaw, LL.D New York, N.Y. 

Charles Card Smith, A.M Boston, Mass. 

Justin Harvey Smith, A.M Boston, Mass. 

William Addison Smith, A.B Worcester, Mass. 

Ezra Scollay Stearns, A.M Fitchburg, Mass. 

•j-Rev. Calvin Stebbins, A.B Framingham, Mass. 

Edward Luther Stevenson, Ph.D New Brunswick, N.J. 

Hannis Taylor, LL.D Mobile, Ala. 

Allen Clapp Thomas, A.M Haverford, Pa. 

Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D Madison, Wis. 

Alfred Marston Tozzer, Ph.D Cambridge, Mass. 

Frederick Jackson Turner, Ph.D Madison, Wis. 

Julius Herbert Tuttle Dedham, Mass. 

Daniel Berkeley Updike Boston, Mass. 

fSAMUEL Utley, LL.B Worcester, Mass. 

Rev. Charles Stuart Vedder, LL.D Charleston, S.C. 

Rt. Rev. Alexander Hamilton Vinton, D.D Springfield, Mass. 

Joseph Burbeen Walker, A.M Concord, N.H. 

Rev. WiLLiSTON Walker, D.D New Haven, Conn. 

Charles Grenfill Washburn, A.B Worcester, Mass. 

Rev. Thomas Franklin Waters, A.M Ipswich, Mass. 

•j-WiLLiAM Babcock Weeden, A.M Providence, R.I. 

Andrew Dickson White, D.C.L Ithaca, N.Y. 

James Lyman Whitney, M.A Cambridge, Mass. 

fGEORGE Parker Winship, A.M Providence, R.I. 

Thomas Lindall Winthrop Boston, Mass. 

Henry Ernest Woods, A.M Boston, Mass. 

Samuel Bayard Woodward, M.D Worcester, Mass. 

t Life members. 



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